Community College Path

Community College Path features interviews with community college researchers and practitioners. The third season will air on Fall 2017.
This podcast is sponsored by the Community College to PhD Association at UCLA.
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Today, we talk about LGBTQ students with Dr. Eboni Zamani-Gallaher, a Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Director of the Office of Community College Research and Leadership. Her coauthored research article is titled “Tracing LGBTQ Community College Students’ Experiences.”

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This interview was prepared or accomplished by Dr. Maya E. Maroto in her personal capacity. The opinions expressed in this interview are the author’s own and do not reflect the view of the United States Department of Agriculture, the Food, Nutrition, & Consumer Services Agency, or the United States Government.

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Today’s guest is Richard Wagoner, an Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at Idaho State University. Carrie Kisker, Richard Wagoner, and Arthur Cohen’s report comes from the Center for the Study of Community Colleges and is titled "Implementing Statewide Transfer & Articulation Reform: An Analysis of Transfer Associate Degrees in Four States."

Cecilia Rios-Aguilar is an Associate Professor of Education and Director of the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA. Her co-principal investigator is Regina Deil-Amen, a Professor of Higher Education at the University of Arizona. Their study is titled "Getting Connected: Harnessing the Power of Social Media Technology to Enhance Community College Student Success."

Julia Kaufman is a policy researcher at the RAND Corporation and Sarah Ryan is a researcher in the Research, Evaluation and Policy unit at the Education Development Center. Co-authors on this research article also include Joel Greenhouse, Ruicong She and Judy Shi. Altogether, their co-authored article was published in Community College Journal of Research and Practice and is titled “The effectiveness of blended online learning courses at the community college level.”

Dr. Alan Webb is an Adjunct Faculty Member and Educational Researcher at the University of Alabama. His co-authored research article was published in Community College Journal of Research and Practice and is titled “The Influence Theory: Factors That Influence the Transfer Advising Process.” His coauthors include Dr. John Dantzler and Dr. David Hardy.

Jason Taylor is an Assistant Professor of Higher Education in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy at the University of Utah. His research article is published in Community College Review and is titled “Accelerating Pathways to College: The (In)Equitable Effects of Community College Dual Credit.”

John Levin is a Professor of Higher Education at the University of California, Riverside and the Director and Principal Investigator of the California Community College Collaborative (C4). His co-authored article was published in Community College Journal of Research and Practice and is titled “‘Dangerous Work’: Improving Conditions for Faculty of Color in the Community College.” His coauthors are Adam Jackson-Boothby, Zachary Haberler, and Laurencia Walker. This research was the product of the California Community College Collaborative (C4) at UC Riverside.

Dr. David Monaghan, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Wisconsin HOPE Lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, discusses his research article that he co-authored with Dr. Paul Attewell, a Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Their article was published in Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis and is titled “The Community College Route to the Bachelor’s Degree.”

Dr. David Monaghan, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Wisconsin HOPE Lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, discusses his research article that he co-authored with Dr. Paul Attewell, a Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Their article was published in Research in Higher Education and is titled “How Many Credits Should an Undergraduate Take?”

Dr. Elisabeth Barnett is a Senior Research Associate at Community College Research Center at Teachers College at Columbia University. She discusses her research article published in The Review of Higher Education and titled “Validation Experiences and Persistence among Community College Students.”

Dr. Pamela Hutto, who received her Doctorates in Education, discusses her research article published in the Community College Journal of Research and Practice and titled “The relationship between student retention in community college courses and faculty employment status.”

Dr. Lyle McKinney, Assistant Professor of Higher Education at the University of Houston, discusses his article that he co-authored with Dr. Heather Novak, research manager in the Office of Institutional Research at Colorado State University. Their article was published in Research in Higher Education and is titled “FAFSA Filing Among First-Year College Students: Who Files on Time, Who Doesn’t, and Why Does it Matter?”

Matthew Zeidenberg, Senior Associate at Abt Associates, discusses his research article published in Community College Review and titled “Valuable Learning or ‘Spinning Their Wheels’? Understanding Excess Credits Earned by Community College Associate Degree Completers.”

Jaime Lester, Associate Professor of Higher Education at George Mason University, discusses her article that she co-authored with Dr. Jeannie Brown Leonard, Dean of Student Academic Affairs, Advising, Retention, & Transition at George Mason University, and David Mathias, graduate student at George Mason University. Their research article was published in Community College Review and is titled “Transfer Student Engagement: Blurring of Social and Academic Engagement.”

Dr. Trudy Bers, President of the Bers Group, discusses her article that she co-authored with Pam Schuetz, an adjunct faculty member at Northwestern University. Their research article was published in Community College Review and is titled “Nearbies: A Missing Piece of the College Completion Conundrum.”

Leaf Zhang, Assistant Professor at the Department of Educational
Leadership and Policy Studies at the University of Texas at
Arlington, discusses her article that she co-authored with Joyce
Lui, a research analyst for San Jose Evergreen Community College
District, and Linda Hagedorn, Associate Dean in the College of
Human Sciences and Professor in the School of Education at Iowa
State University. Their research article was published in The
Journal of Applied Research in the Community College and is
titled “Post Transfer Experiences: Adult Undergraduate Students at
a Research University.”

Kelly Nielsen, a Sociology PhD candidate at UC San Diego, discusses his research article published in Sociology of Education and titled “‘Fake It ’til You Make It’: Why Community College Students’ Aspirations ‘Hold Steady.’”